Maureen

“Beautiful people expect so much more from life than life is willing to give them.”
― Frode Grytten, The Ferryman and His Wife

“a sea-quake, a whale-made hurricane, a man-made typhoon – the”
― Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle

“Don’t we all need to tell someone about ourselves, so as to bear the weight of living? Only if one can let out a bit of one’s own truth into the ear of another, and feel the warmth of an understanding gaze, can one breathe. But that was barred to me now. Concealing myself in the midst of this fraternity, I had lost all community.”
― Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”
― Aaron Jackson, The Astonishing Life of August March